New Releases on Netflix UK (29th April)

Another week, another Netflix Original movie! This week sees the addition of Ricky Gervais’s “Special Correspondents”, a remake of a French film “Envoyes Tres Speciaux”. When a radio news reporter and his sound technician lose their passports, they decide to stay in New York instead of covering the rebel uprising in South America – using various special effects to add realism to their fake news. Things eventually get rather complicated when teams are dispatched to try and locate the missing journalists.

“Escape From L.A.” is John Carpenter’s cult 1996 action sequel to “Escape From New York”. Los Angeles has physically broken away from the United States after a major earthquake and is now being used as an island-based penal colony. When the President’s daughter runs away to LA with a lethal doomsday weapon, Snake Plissken is brought in to retrieve it.

Younger viewers will enjoy “Rio 2”, the wonderful CGI sequel. Blu and Jewel, now happily married with 3 children, leave Rio de Janeiro to visit the Amazon. Coming face to face with their old enemy, Nigel, they also visit Jewel’s family. Blu struggles to fit in in the wild and soon discovers that his biggest challenge will be his father-in-law.

Finishing off this week’s round up is “Dara Ó Briain’s Science Club”. Two series of the show have been added to Netflix UK and see comedian Ó Briain hosting this BBC science show. With various scientists as guests, each episode looks at a number of scientific theories as well as how science is changing the world we live in.

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